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. 2023 Feb 15;12(4):e028713. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.122.028713

Figure 2. Numbers of telehealth and in‐person outpatient encounters per 100 patients with cardiovascular disease and by age, sex, urbanicity, and Census region, sub‐CVD disease, MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters database, January 2019 to June 2021.

Figure 2

A, All samples. B, By age group. C, By sex. D, By urbanicity. E, By Census region. F, By sub‐CVD disease. On the y‐axis, we report the number of outpatient encounters per 100 patients diagnosed with CVD (ICD‐10‐CM code I00–I09, I16–I78) (A through E) and respective sub‐CVD diseases (F). Patients with CVD were defined if inpatient or emergency department encounters contained at least 1 diagnosis of CVD, or at least 2 outpatient encounters contained the diagnosis of CVD with at least a 30‐day interval during the 2 years of lookback periods from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2018. CVD was defined after excluding hypertension alone (ICD‐10‐CM code I10‐I15) from CVD (ICD‐10‐CM code I00–I78). Out of 474 811 patients with CVD (Figure 1), 35 863 patients were aged 18 to 34 y, and 426 428 were aged 35 to 64 y; 234 107 patients were men, and 240 704 were women; 410 911 patients lived in urban regions, and 63 900 lived in rural regions; 72 859 patients lived in the Northeast; 244 384 patients lived in the South; 109 464 patients lived in the Midwest; and 47 176 patients lived in the West. There were 12 571 patients with acute myocardial infarction, 20 327 patients with heart failure, 81 082 patients with ischemic heart disease, 28 395 patients with strokes, and 32 599 patients with atrial fibrillation. For both telehealth and in‐person outpatient encounters, the differences in the monthly estimates of the numbers per 100 patients with CVD between subgroups of age group, sex, and urbanicity were tested using a Welch 2‐tailed t test, and the differences among subgroups of Census region and sub‐CVD diseases were tested using 1‐way ANOVA by each month to test the differences in the monthly estimates by subgroups. The corresponding numbers of telehealth and in‐person outpatient encounters per 100 patients with CVD and the test results are shown in Tables S1 and S2. CVD indicates cardiovascular disease; and ICD‐10‐CM, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification.